Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how much from the public purse the Government has provided to the Francis Crick Institute to support the institute’s commercialisation office since the institute was founded.

The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 by UK Research and Innovation’s Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK, and the Wellcome Trust, with university partners. In 2021-22 the Crick was provided with a 7 year settlement of £1 billion in core funding by its three founding members, £406 million of which (41%) came from MRC. Part of this funding is used to employ Crick staff involved in commercialisation activities.